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Summary

This is the NASA Voyager Data Management Handbook, August 1967, that was produced for the use of all activities supporting the Voyager Project.

Biographical / Historical

The Voyager Project was a 1960s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) proposal for a robotic spacecraft program to explore Mars and Venus. Managed by the Jet Propulsion Lab, the project was formally approved by NASA Headquarters in 1964, but delays caused by cuts to NASA's science budget, debate over how Voyager should be managed and launched, and new Mars atmosphere data gathered by the July 1965 Mariner IV flyby, pushed back NASA's formal Voyager start-up until January 1967. Congress, however, refused to fund Voyager as it was seen as too costly and because of undermined confidence in NASA caused by the recent Apollo 1 fire. NASA formally abandoned the project in September 1967.

Identifier

NASM.2022.0008

Creator

California Institute of Technology. Jet Propulsion Lab

Date

August 1967

Provenance

Richard J. Plocica, Gift, 2021, NASM.2022.0008

Extent

0.05 Cubic feet (One legal folder.)

Archival Repository

National Air and Space Museum Archives

Scope and Contents

This is the NASA Voyager Data Management Handbook, August 1967, that was produced for the use of all activities supporting the Voyager Project.

Arrangement note

Just one item.

Rights

Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.

Restrictions

No restrictions on access

Citation

Voyager Data Management Handbook NASM.2022.0008, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Topics

Astronautics

Mars probes

Venus probes

Planetary science

Voyager Project

Type

Collection descriptions

Archival materials